GS: "Come In And Burn": I tried something different for this one. I made the music first with a vague idea of how I was going to fit the poetry in, and I figured I'd put the poem in the middle, rather than starting off with it right away. I did know I wanted something texturally and sonically very different from everything else on the album, and I went with a percussion-based music, with a little recorder and bowed device thrown in. I did make the music with the idea of anxiety and inner turmoil in mind, I just needed to do this in a different way than I had with the other pieces.
lyrics
To think of her leaving
is to look into the face of madness
to beg it enter through my eyes
and play its savage purpose against
the confines of my skull
To make the attempt to
stretch my mouth around the razored
putrid words is
an exercise in weird masochism
the pain so foreign and yet so inevitably
mine
I cannot, it seems, do this
as long as it needs be done
my strength wanes with my patience
for the violence laying waste
to my head
and still the most vile fear
is that it could yet be worse
(c) David McIntire
credits
from Wonder, Doubt And Curiosity,
released May 18, 2014
written and performed by David McIntire (poetry) and Greg Segal (music).
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